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Pulitzer Prize Winners
Biography / Autobiography
| 1917 | Richards, Laura E.; Elliott, Maude Howe; Hall, Florence Howe | Julia Ward Howe |
| 1918 | Bruce, William Cabell | Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed |
| 1919 | Adams, Henry | The Education of Henry Adams |
| 1920 | Beveridge, Albert J. | The Life of John Marshall |
| 1921 | Bok, Edward | The Americanization of Edward Bok |
| 1922 | Garland, Hamlin | A Daughter of the Middle Border |
| 1923 | Hendrick, Burton J. | The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page |
| 1924 | Pupin, Michael | From Immigrant to Inventor |
| 1925 | Howe, M. A. DeWolfe | Barrett Wendall and His Letters |
| 1926 | Cushing, Harvey | Life of Sir William Osler |
| 1927 | Holloway, Emory | Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative |
| 1928 | Russell, Charles Edward | The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas |
| 1929 | Hendrick, Burton J. | The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page |
| 1930 | James, Marquis | The Raven (Sam Houston) |
| 1931 | James, Henry | Charles W. Eliot |
| 1932 | Pringle, Henry F. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1933 | Nevins, Allan | Grover Cleveland |
| 1934 | Dennett, Tyler | John Hay |
| 1935 | Freeman, Douglas Southall | R. E. Lee |
| 1936 | Perry, Ralph Barton | The Thought and Character of William James |
| 1937 | Nevins, Allan | Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration |
| 1938 | Shepard, Odell | Pedlar's Progress (Bronson Alcott) |
| James, Marquis | Andrew Jackson |
| 1939 | Van Doren, Carl | Benjamin Franklin |
| 1940 | Baker, Ray Stannard | Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters |
| 1941 | Winslow, Ola Elizabeth | Jonathan Edwards |
| 1942 | Wilson, Forrest | Crusader in Crinoline (Harriet Beecher Stowe) |
| 1943 | Morison, Samuel Eliot | Admiral of the Ocean Sea (Christopher Columbus) |
| 1944 | Mabee, Carleton | The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse |
| 1945 | Nye, Russell Blaine | George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel |
| 1946 | Wolfe, Linny Marsh | Son of the Wilderness (John Muir) |
| 1947 | White, William Allen | Autobiography of William Allen White |
| 1948 | Clapp, Margaret | Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow |
| 1949 | Sherwood, Robert E. | Roosevelt and Hopkins |
| 1950 | Bemis, Samuel Flagg | John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy |
| 1951 | Coit, Margaret Louise | John C. Calhoun: American Portrait |
| 1952 | Pusey, Merlo J. | Charles Evans Hughes |
| 1953 | Mays, David J. | Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803 |
| 1954 | Lindbergh, Charles A. | The Spirit of St. Louis |
| 1955 | White, William S. | The Taft Story |
| 1956 | Hamlin, Talbot F. | Benjamin Henry Latrobe |
| 1957 | Kennedy, John F. | Profiles in Courage |
| 1958 | Freeman, Douglas Southall; Carroll, John Alexander; Ashworth, Mary Wells | George Washington (Vol. I-VII) |
| 1959 | Walworth, Arthur | Woodrow Wilson: American Prophet |
| 1960 | Morison, Samuel Eliot | John Paul Jones |
| 1961 | Donald, David | Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War |
| 1963 | Edel, Leon | Henry James: Vols. 2-3 |
| 1964 | Bate, Walter Jackson | John Keats |
| 1965 | Samuels, Ernest | Henry Adams |
| 1966 | Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M | A Thousand Days |
| 1967 | Kaplan, Justin | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
| 1968 | Kennan, George F. | Memiors (1925-1950) |
| 1969 | Reid, B. L. | The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends |
| 1970 | Williams, T. Harry | Huey Long |
| 1971 | Thompson, Lawrence | Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 |
| 1972 | Lash, Joseph P. | Eleanor and Franklin |
| 1973 | Swanberg, W. A. | Luce and His Empire |
| 1974 | Sheaffer, Louis | O'Neill, Son and Artist |
| 1975 | Caro, Robert A. | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York |
| 1976 | Lewis, R. W. B. | Edith Wharton: A Biography |
| 1977 | Mack, John E. | A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence |
| 1978 | Bate, Walter Jackson | Samuel Johnson |
| 1979 | Baker, Leonard | Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews |
| 1980 | Morris, Edmund | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1981 | Massie, Robert K. | Peter the Great: His Life and World |
| 1982 | McFeely, William S. | Grant: A Biography |
| 1983 | Baker, Russell | Growing Up |
| 1984 | Harlan, Louis R. | Booker T. Washington |
| 1985 | Silverman, Kenneth | The Life and Times of Cotton Mather |
| 1986 | Frank, Elizabeth | Louise Bogan: A Portrait |
| 1987 | Garrow, David J. | Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| 1988 | Donald, David Herbert | Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe |
| 1989 | Ellmann, Richard | Oscar Wilde |
| 1990 | de Grazia, Sebastian | Machiavelli in Hell |
| 1991 | Naifeh, Steven; Smith, Gregory White | Jackson Pollock: An American Saga |
| 1992 | Puller Jr., Lewis B. | Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet |
| 1993 | McCullough, David | Truman |
| 1994 | Lewis, David Levering | W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 |
| 1995 | Hedrick, Joan D. | Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life |
| 1996 | Miles, Jack | God: A Biography |
| 1997 | McCourt, Frank | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir |
| 1998 | Graham, Katharine | Personal History |
| 1999 | Berg, A. Scott | Lindbergh |
| 2000 | Schiff, Stacy | Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
| 2001 | Lewis, David Levering | W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 |
| 2002 | McCullough, David | John Adams |
| 2003 | Caro, Robert | The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate |
| 2004 | Taubman, William | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
| 2005 | Stevens, Mark; Swan, Annalyn | de Kooning: An American Master |
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Thomas, Edward A., ed. The World Almanac and Book of Facts for Booklovers.
New York,NY; World Almanac Books, 2005.
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